The Average Canadian is Now Richer than the Average American

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

This is what happens when a country is allowed to use its natural resources,People get rich.

[sly_wolf 199]

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.../#ixzz20vzD1LDC

Another similar one:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-15/hardheaded-socialism-makes-canada-richer-than-u-s-.html

Yeah check out the price of a liter of gas there. Also, pile on the 15% combined GST, and PST as well as the many income taxes.

Yes, about $5 per gallon in some places.

[웃 910]

The beer is good, and they deliver!

I've heard a cheap 24-pack up there sells for over $35.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Oh, Canada!

[JohnR! 5,495]

But it is obvious that cannot be true because they have more socialism there than we do here!! But........but.......but..................................

Edited July 18, 2012 by Gegel

[Ban Hammer 13,645]

Dorothea Lange’s famous picture of Florence Owens Thompson was taken during the Great Depression.

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interesting spin on the picture

[JohnR! 5,495]

Dorothea Lange's famous picture of Florence Owens Thompson was taken during the Great Depression.

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interesting spin on the picture

History tends to repeat itself, they say....

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Oh, Canada!

Moving back so soon then I take it?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Moving back so soon then I take it?

No, why? Or is it a rule that when one moves to the US, they must abandon their love for their home country?

[Captain Oates 911]

Isn't Australia that island in the South Pacific where the Brits sent all their criminals?

They actually sent more to America

shipping costs were less

[Captain Oates 911]

No, why? Or is it a rule that when one moves to the US, they must abandon their love for their home country?

That is the rule - plus you must actually bad mouth your old country and agree with the ethnic stereotypes

Unless you are Italian or Irish and then you can glory in it and buy a T shirt

Jerries and Brits etc are viewed with suspicion, Poles derided, but Africans and Indians and Young Mexican students are treated as pets

The only way to deal with this is to know more about their history than them (That's not hard) and then trip em up with facts when they start their bragging and superiority stuff

I never was that much into the history of England until I moved here, but now I spend more and more time learning of it's wonderful history and achievements - not the least of which is to give the USA the core of its main language and the vast majority of its Federal law code AND not least, it's Constitution, most of which is grounded in the English revolution and civil wars of the 1600's and the bill of rights 1689.

That doesn't stop Mitt Romney claiming that the Constitution was all brand new, based on nothing else from anywhere else, and DIVINELY inspired if not written by GOD

Look, it doesn't rain as much and the petrol is cheap - that's good enough for me to hang out here -all the rest is a childish cartoon

[JohnR! 5,495]

That doesn't stop Mitt Romney claiming that the Constitution was all brand new, based on nothing else from anywhere else, and DIVINELY inspired if not written by GOD

Chances are Mitt will claim the Constitution was revealed to the Founding Fathers, through divine words inscribed inside their hats...

[Captain Oates 911]

Chances are Mitt will claim the Constitution was revealed to the Founding Fathers, through divine words inscribed inside their hats...

They haven't had a pop at his religion yet - they must be saving that for later stages of the election

Back to the subject - richness is how people feel and the Canadians do appear to have a better sense of well being and to be very happy with their health care arrangements.

Global warming will open up the North West passage and make their land mass more accessible. There is nothing like having your passage opened up to add to your dense of well being

Averages don't mean much. I have just spend last weekend in new york and the riches of Romney and his ilk inflate the US averages but mean nothing or worse to the people who live on the street

The average American is far from rich and the average European or Canadian has a much more secure life in terms of the certainty of their health care and their employment laws etc

The US is ok while everything is going well, but there is always that lingering fear. In order to be of a settled mind, it is necessary to be able to shrug at those who fall by the wayside and possibly give a little to charity in order to assuage one's conscience

It's ironic that merely shrugging at people who are chewed up by the system, and allowing it to continue, is the culture in a land where christianity, and extreme christianity, is predominant

"Looking after each other" only seems to apply when an American is arrested abroad, and if that same person is sick with no health insurance, they suddenly become expendable

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

A lot of people think of Canadians as these nice, warm, fury, little creatures that live up North. If you have ever driven the ALCAN Highway you would know they are anything but. The ALCAN is a highway the American's built during WW2 so we could run supplies up to Alaska to help fight the Japs. A US designed and built highway from Washington State to Alaska....through two Canadian provinces. The Canadians have three prices along that highway. One for Canadians, a higher one for cars with US plates, and an even higher price for anyone with Alaska plates. Scam artist don't even begin to explain it. And before Canada started the tight ####### border procedures that later on the US took up the Canadians would flood the US border towns to buy cheaper gas and cigs thus driving the prices up in those towns. You want to know what country the terrorist come through on their way to the US? Well here's a hint...it isn't Mexico.

[sly_wolf 199]

Oh, Canada!

Who could have imagined ..... a country with medicare and socialist programs becoming richer than the US!